Not so long ago we told our news flow about the upcoming company Galaxy Technology unique in its kind, single-board version of the graphic adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250, built produced a pair of 55-nm chip technology G92b. Then we have you had the opportunity to get acquainted only with the layout elements of this decision at its printed circuit board. Now the staff network resource Expreview managed to get quality images of the final version of the accelerator in the collection, as well as learn some details about its technical characteristics and even to evaluate performance of “two-headed monster” in the test application 3DMark Vantage.
Verizon will begin selling a 4G-phones in mid-2011
According to the technical director of Verizon Wireless, Anthony Malone, supplies the world’s first 4G-phones in the retail network will begin in mid-2011. This happens in about a year after commissioning of the first network LTE, but six months before the previously scheduled date.
No specifications, no other details about future devices are unknown. It is known that the early series will have two two-way radio – for CDMA and LTE, but it is only a temporary measure, and eventually, when the network reaches certain heights LTE, CDMA will be abolished.
In addition, Malone said that with the advent of 4G Verizon put an end to domination of free-limit tariff plans. Payment will be made exclusively for the spent traffic.
Another major U.S. operator, AT & T, has a diametrically opposite opinion about the tariff plans, but adheres to the same terms on the 4G. The Company does not expect to run their own networks of LTE in 2011, but plans to begin sales of 4G-devices simultaneously with Verizon.
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iPad can bypass Kindle in just three months
According to the analyst FBR Capital Craig Berger, iPad can bypass the sales e-book Amazon Kindle DX just three months. He believes that all the rumors about problems in the manufacturing process is mere speculation. According to his information, the company has ordered from its OEM-partners 5 million units to the middle of summer. If successful, the device will beat the record Amazon Kindle, when the first three months were sold 3 million units.
As with earlier projections, according to which in March will be sold several hundred thousand and a million units in April, Craig Berger other iPad strong start. True, the old projections are no longer valid due to the fact that sales start on April 3. Apple hinted that they require greater stock of finished devices for delivery outside the United States.
Essence of forecasting is that output iPad would be a serious blow to the popularity of electronic books from various manufacturers. Despite the fact that these devices are completely different classes, planshetnik from Apple certainly claim to be part of the market of electronic books.
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Mobile Workstation Dell Precision M4500
Focusing on the needs of professional users of the number of digital artists, architects, engineers and research scientists, the company Dell has released a new mobile workstation, Precision M4500.
This model weighing 2.27 kg is enclosed in a beautiful performance by slim 27.9 mm and is equipped with 15.6-inch LCD with Full HD-resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels and LED backlight. Typewriter available in different configuration options, including the presence of an Intel Core i5 family or Core i7 (including the Intel Core i7-920XM Extreme Edition), graphics NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M or NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M with a gigabyte of video memory, up to 16 GB of RAM and writer optical drive. In addition, as the options will be available to drive SSD MiniCard capacity of 64 GB built-in 3-megapixel webcam, a module Gobi 2.0, as well as 9 – or 12-cell battery.
Mass notebook sales should begin in the near future, but the question of its price still remains open.
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OCZ Onyx SATA II – SSD-drive for less than $100
Company OCZ Technology Group announced a new model for 2.5-inch solid state drive OCZ Onyx SATA II, which the developers call the cheapest SSD-drive of the presented today on sale. It is a pity, but a formal cost devices yet to be determined – the manufacturer has not reveal precise information on the subject, but promises that the price of new products will not exceed the psychological milestone of $100.
For comparison, the cost of high performance solid state drives series Agility capacity of 30 GB is $119, and vast majority of similar in terms of storage devices is not for sale cheaper hundred dollars. Some manufacturers such as Crucial, and does not engage in transfers to the world market drives 32 GB. The cost of the same capacity of 64 GB model is only slightly less than $200. So, indeed, the model OCZ Onyx SATA II will be one of the most affordable SSD-drives, which should attract the mass buyer.
Like many modern solid state drives, model OCZ Onyx SATA II based on the integrated circuits of NAND-memory multi-level organization of memory cells. This steady rate of reading and writing data is 125 Mb/s and 70 Mb/s, respectively. Plus, this device is equipped with “onboard” cache memory of 64 MB, allowing some increase in speed. However, to the best examples on the market very far – manufacturers offer models with a speed of reading and writing data to 250 Mb/s and 200 Mb/sec. It is worth noting that the model OCZ Onyx SATA II this parameter as the time between failures of 1.5 million hours.
Developers intend that their new find use as boot drives for notebooks and netbooks. Devices OCZ Onyx SATA II come with a three-year warranty and tech support Users.
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Club «ATI DirectX 11″ – entry from $47
New technology from ATI is already available to everyone. If last September to join the happy owners of video cards Radeon HD 5000 series users can cast for them, not one hundred dollars, after the announcement of Radeon HD 5450 to get into the club «ATI DirectX 11″ can be just $47.
ASUS introduced the business-notebook with processor Core i5
Among the novelties presented by ASUS at CeBIT 2010 last week, was demonstrated business-notebook called PL30JT. It is built on a processor Intel Core i5 with a frequency of 1.06 GHz, graphics adapter NVIDIA GeForce 310M, as well as Intel GMA HD. There is support technology NVIDIA Optimus.
display diagonal of 13.3 inches has a resolution of 1366×768 pixels, and the maximum amount of RAM is 4 GB. It is expected that the sale will go version of the notebook with a glossy and a matte finish display. Variants are also two hard drive – 640 GB with a spindle rotation speed 5400 rpm and 500 GB 7200 rpm. In the device there is no optical drive, so it has a weight of 1.72 kg and a thickness of just over 2 cm assured by the manufacturer, the battery sufficient for 10 hours of battery life.
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The first 3D-TV Sony appear in June
June 10 this year the company Sony will begin selling its 3D-TV. Sales start simultaneously across the world.
first to go to the counters 40 and 46-inch model, which will be delivered together with 3D-glasses. Their price is $3215 and $3880 respectively. In July, go on sale 52 – and 60-inch TVs, as well as four “3D-ready” model with built-in 3D-scheme, but without the glasses and an infrared transmitter included.
The cheapest 40-inch model, which would require separate purchase of glasses and the transmitter would cost $2400. Glasses and transmitter cost $133 and $56 respectively.
In each model is built conversion from 2D to 3D, which can take the usual two-dimensional image and turn it into a three-dimensional.
Sony hopes to achieve 2.5 million new televisions before the end of this year. The competition Sony want to make such large companies as Panasonic and Samsung. For example, Panasonic plans to begin selling televisions through 3D-store chain Best Buy.
Moscow premiere of the new 3D-TV will be held tomorrow. For more information on Russia and the CIS countries expect in the near future.
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The official announcement of touch LG GS290 Cookie Fresh
LG GS290 was the third phone, join the line Cookie. In 2008 he founded a model KP500 (Cookie), and last month’s announcement took place GS500 (Cookie Plus). Expansion of the collection is directly related to the high demand for affordable phones with full touch screen control – in finely LG monitor consumer sentiment.
GS290 (Cookie Fresh) should be the most affordable of all the Cookie. It will not be able to work in third-generation networks will offer 2-megapixel camera, interface with widgets, FM-radio with RDS, memory card slot microSD (up to 8 GB), 3.5-mm jack for wired headphones. Diagonal resistive screen – 3 inches.
But the price – not main advantage Cookie Fresh. The manufacturer promises to launch the phone once in ten different colors. Photos from the CeBIT 2010 can be found here.
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GIGABYTE GV-R587SO-1GD ranks first in 3DMark Vantage
In early February, we were happy for the achievements Russian overclockers, who did everything to take the gold in a complicated discipline 3DMark Vantage. Then they broke up graphics core XFX Radeon HD 5870 up to 1395 MHz frequency, and the local memory to the frequency of 1256 MHz (effective frequency – 5024 MHz QDR). Now they are the result already in sixth place in the rating of single cards discipline 3DMark Vantage. Why do not we write about new developments? For the reason that they lacked zest.
Gold complex discipline 3DMark Vantage is now owned by overclockers Mike. The highlight of this result is the same frequency is, to which was overclocked Gigabyte GV-R587SO-1GD. This model belongs to the proprietary product line Super Overclock Series. Enthusiast does not screenshots, but from his words is clear that the RV870 chip clocked at 1430 MHz and GDDR5 memory chips have conquered a fantastic rate – 1470 MHz (effective frequency – 5880 MHz QDR). In the TOR-20 discipline 3DMark Vantage is only one result, which took part in the video card Radeon HD 5870 with overclocked memory over 1400 MHz.
success of the event, of course, depended on the skill overclocker Mike, but on the Gigabyte GV-R587SO-1GD depended much. Take almost 1,5 GHz (6 GHz QDR) memory – it’s good advertising products Taiwanese company.
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GTX 470 vs. HD 5870 in Heaven Benchmark and Far Cry 2
10.03.2010 [18:11], Alexander Shemetov
game before the announcement of GeForce based on the Fermi remains about two weeks. For this reason, the information density of the GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470 increases every day. From it we try to select the most interesting information. Today, thanks to the guys with the resource 59hardware.net , learn the level of performance, GeForce GTX 470 and Radeon HD 5870 in benchmarks Heaven Benchmark and Far Cry 2. About
testbed is known only that the processor runs at 3.2 GHz (probably some of the Core i7), RAM was 6 GB. Tests were running Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit).
A popular test Heaven Benchmark at 1920×1200 pixels and when you activate the FSAA mode 4X graphics card GeForce GTX 470 still proved to be faster than Radeon HD 5870. The advantage of a negligible, but it is.
in the game Far Cry 2 at 2560×1600 pixels and when you activate FSAA 8x mode separation GeForce GTX 470 from a competitor is more visible. Also note that the minimum FPS.
Treat these results should be examined with caution. Verify their authenticity there is no possibility.
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«Carrot rocket” in the Formula 3 – speed and environmental friendliness
10.03.2010 [18:00], Artem Terekhov
Environmentally friendly cars excite the minds of all automotive engineers (and marketing) across the globe. Typically, such cars are referring to cars with hybrid or all-electric, or fed from fuel cells. But British scientists at the University of Warwick (University of Warwick) went far beyond the traditional perception of things. They created a racing car class “Formula 3″ of carrots and potatoes, and used as fuel chocolate.
Do not hurry rotate the finger to his temple, and guess what the author was smoking news. It’s really that way. Handlebar is made of processed carrots and other root crops, a racing pilot’s seat – from flax fibers and foams, derived from soybean oil. Do not think that this is a show – elements that directly affect the dynamic characteristics of the car, also made “a green”: as a material for brake pads using the shell of cashew nuts, spinners are made from potatoes, as well as lubricants serve products based on vegetable oil.In this tank car pour biodiesel made from waste chocolate industry.
Perhaps the only traditional element of the new car – this is his engine. Surprisingly, it’s made of metal, since no carrot not withstand such pressures faced by a racing engine. Two-liter turbo-diesel production BMW car accelerates to 100 km/h in less than 4 seconds (and so on chocolate!), The developers are hoping that the machine can reach a top speed of 232 km/h. It’s good results, considering that “Formula 3″ is, in essence, a class for beginner pilots who want to get in top league.
have such extravagant engineering works have a few “pros and cons. In pluses car can be recorded that 95% of its elements are natural – that is, they decompose without consequences for the environment. We just do not forget “to put the car in the fridge, if you want it to live to start the race. Jokes aside, there is an unpleasant moment – namely, biodiesel engines officially banned competition regulations. But the price of “carrot missiles” turned very humane – the developers took nine months and 150 thousand pounds sterling. Still not convinced that the car – only the fruit of a sick imagination of the author? Then watch this video:
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